BANGKOK, April1 (TNA) – Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
(BMA) orders all food shops and convenience stores to close between midnight to
5 am., effective today.
Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang said after the
meeting with the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee that those shops
included convenience stores, food shops, restaurants and street food carts.
The BMA will work with the Metropolitan Police to
set up checkpoints to prevent violations.
Now, these food operators remain opened for food
deliveries and takeaways only. Eating in restaurants and food shops are banned
to keep social distancing.
The BMA does
not impose a nighttime curfew in the capital but asks for cooperation from
people to stay home.
Governors of Nonthaburi and Samut Prakan, Bangkok’s
surrounding provinces have imposed nighttime curfews to contain the spread of
the Covid-19 outbreak.
The governor said rent relief would be issued to
help sellers at markets, shut down due to the Covid-19 situation.
The markets under its supervision to waive rent fee
for all traders from March until the situation eases.
The rent relief was also forwarded to the State
Railway of Thailand to waive rent for sellers at the Chutuchak weekend market
for nine months. (TNA)
